Create a timeline of the major events in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Continue it as we read. (Caron)
Feel free to fill in the (huge) gaps<kyle


  1. Huck introduces himself and the people around him. ~~Caron~~
  2. Huck figures out that Pap is back in town and soon meets him. (Michelle)
  3. Huck escapes his Pap's control <kyle
  4. He and Jim, Miss Watson's slave, embark on a journey down the mighty Mississippi <kyle
  5. See the wrecked steamboat and the robbers/thieves inside <kyle
  6. Huck gets lost in the fog (Caron)
  7. Pass the city of Cairo where Jim could have been granted his freedom <kyle
  8. Huck tries to trick Jim and Jim gets offended and tries to teach Huck a lesson (Caron)
  9. The King and the Duke get on board (Caron)
  10. The King, the Duke, and Huck get off of the raft at a small town. The King tricks the locals and gets them to donate money to his (fake) cause, and the Duke comes up with an idea of how they can travel during the day with Jim. (Jennifer)
  11. The Duke wants to put on plays to make money. The Duke and the King rehearsed on the raft. (Jennifer)
  12. Boggs is shot in the town the King and Duke are going to put on a play. (Jennifer)
  13. No one shows up to the Shakespearean plays, so they paint the King and have him run around naked on stage to get an audience. They trick the audience and get a lot of money. (Jennifer)
  14. They go downriver where they meet a young man who tells them about a man who has died and has buried all of his money somewhere. (Jennifer)
  15. The King and the Duke pretend to be Mr. Wilks' brothers. (Caron)
  16. They "steal" the money. (Caron)
  17. Huck hides the money and wants to give it to the rightful owners: the daughters of Mr. Wilks. (Caron)
  18. Huck tells the truth to Mary Jane and she leaves the house so she won't give it away that she knows (Tony)
  19. The "real" Harvey and William Wilks show up. (Kristin)
  20. The people try to figure out who the "real" Harvey and William Wilks are. (Kristin)
  21. The duke, dauphin, and Huck all escape from the Wilks' and get back on the raft with Jim. (Kristin)
  22. The group heads downriver, trying to steal money by scams. (Caron)
  23. Not being very successful for a while, they plan on trying the Royal Nonesuch one more time. (Caron)
  24. There is a fight in the tavern. (Caron)
  25. Huck tries to run away from Royalty by going to the raft and leaving with Jim. (Caron)
  26. Huck finds out what happened to Jim. (Caron)
  27. Huck pretends to look for Jim in a town 40 miles away? and the Duke believes him, thinking Huck will be out of the way for a while. (Caron)
  28. Huck goes to the Phelps family and pretends to be "Tom" but is stumped by some personal questions about his family. (Caron)
  29. He is very relieved to find out he was acting Tom SAWYER. (Caron)
  30. Huck sees a steamboat head for the town and, saying he will pick up his luggage, he goes there and meets the real Tom on the road. (Caron)
  31. Huck goes back as Tom and Tom goes back as a stranger, later changing himself to being Sid, his own brother. (Caron)
  32. Tom and Huck start planning an infamous jailbreak for Jim. (Shelby K)
  33. Huck and Tom put many critters in Jim's jail. (Caron)
  34. They free Jim and are chased by the farmers. (Caron)
  35. Tom gets shot in the foot but the trio make it to an island. (Caron)
  36. Huck gets a doctor and falls asleep in the village only to wake up and run into Uncle Silas. (Caron)
  37. The doctor brings back Tom and Jim to the house. The doctor says good things about Jim who is then treated better. (Caron)
  38. The truth is learned about Jim's jailbreak and the rest. (Caron)
  39. Huck is adopted by the Phelps family and is to be civilized. (Caron)